Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 255
e pressure against the cannon is effected by a strong spring x. The basket n contains four blades 6, (see Fig. 734,) which by the pressing-screws s are pressed against the trunnions. Those parts of the the cannon which cannot be turned off in the above-described manner, because thetrunnions and… … CANNON. 253 edges he then takes away by the plain chisels, (Figs. 720 and 721,) upon which the surface is freedfrom all inequalities by means of the vaulted mallet, (Fig. 728,) and of the instruments represented byFigs. 724 and 726. The elaboration of the angles and ornaments is accomplished by…
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